ibmvnic: Add ethtool private flag for driver-defined queue limits
When choosing channel amounts and ring sizes, the maximums in the ibmvnic driver are defined by the virtual i/o server management partition. Even though they are defined as maximums, the client driver may in fact successfully request resources that exceed these limits, which are mostly dependent on a user's hardware With this in mind, provide an ethtool flag that when enabled will allow the user to request resources limited by driver-defined maximums instead of limits defined by the management partition. The driver will try to honor the user's request but may not allowed by the management partition. In this case, the driver requests as close as it can get to the desired amount until it succeeds. Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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